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MOGADISHU — Somalia’s government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction set off by a suicide bomber in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national news agency said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, in comments on its Andalus radio station, claimed responsibility for …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) has condemned Wednesday’s attack in the capital Mogadishu which left at least nine people dead and fourteen others wounded. The responsibility of the attack was claimed by al-Shabaab, which has waged an Islamist war in the Horn of African nation …

MOGADISHU — At least 8 people have been killed and 9 others injured in a suicide car bomb explosion targeting a UN security convoy on 21st road in Mogadishu’s Waberi district near Aden Abdulle International Airport. Residents of Banadir reported hearing a loud bang at noon local time as a …

MOGADISHU —  Save The Children announced Wednesday that one in two children in southern Somalia is undersized by chronic malnutrition because of an ongoing deadly drought that has devastated many in the country. “Nearly half of children under five in the Baidoa district of southern Somalia are suffering from chronic …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government has on Tuesday begun distributing an aid shipment from received from the UAE to assist with the country’s current drought. Somali Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Khadija Mohamed Diriye said the government has started to distribute the aid to Garbaharey, Beledweyne and Hudur which are one …

MOGADISHU —  Already battered by climate change-related disasters such as floods and desert locust invasions, Somalia is now in the grip of a deadly drought that is causing massive displacement. People in several regions of the Horn of Africa country are heading for various towns and cities in search of …

MOGADISHU — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said its intensified anti-desert locust operations have resulted in the reduction in the number of swarms in Somalia in the past month. FAO said in its desert locust situation update released on Thursday evening that its control operations …

MOGADISHU — A total of 729 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Somalia from a sample size of 9,158 tested in the last one week according to the data from the ministry of health. Somalia has reported 729 new COVID-19 cases in the past one week bringing the …

MOGADISHU — The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Abdiwahab Ugas Hussein Khalif, received in his office WFP Representative in Somalia, Elkhidir Daluum, and discussed in depth how to strengthen the ministry’s partnership with WFP. The meeting focused on expanding cooperation between the two sides, with the signing of a …

MOGADISHU — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said Tuesday that in 2022 more than 20 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya will need urgent food assistance because of severe drought and conflict. “This is an increase of over 70% compared to food crises in 2016 …